Snippets from the debate on President Obama's Pacific trade proposal:
"The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is an authoritarian state ruled by a single party, the Communist Party of Vietnam." - U.S. State Department.
"I'm a little bit puzzled by that. I don't really know." - Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn.
"We definitely should form a trade agreement with Vietnam." - Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

President Obama is said to be sensitive to criticism, but maybe he's not so thin-skinned after all. He said in an interview that he spends time responding to angry emails he gets. "...some of them are saying you're an idiot," he said.

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The Export-Import Bank of the United States made $65 million in loans to finance a wind farm deal in Peru that had already been finalized a year earlier.